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Squabbles at work may be due to office design
Published Sep 10, 2015Your likelihood of squabbling with co-workers could be due to the design of your office, a new study suggests.
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Summer sessions bring together Chinese and Swedish students
Jerker Widengren (left) a Professor at KTH, with Yan Wang and Professor Weihai Ying, Vice Dean of the School of Biomedical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. (Photo: Hendrik Bergsten) Published Sep 07, 2015Almost 80 students and teachers from China and Sweden met at KTH in late August for a week of inspirational lectures on a broad range of interdisciplinary topics in biomedicine. The joint Swedish/Chin...
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Algae entrepreneur from KTH named Wired fellow
Researcher and entrepreneur Fredrika Gullfot at the Simris production facility in Österlen, Sweden. (Foto: Daniel Nilsson) Published Aug 28, 2015Can a seaweed farmer change the world? Wired magazine seems to think so. It named algae entrepreneur Fredrika Gullfot —a former KTH researcher — one of its 12 Wired Innovation Fellows for 2015.
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Fashion industry shops for innovative ideas
At KTH Anders Wijkman, Rebecca Earley, Vigga Svensson and Johan Rockström discussed how to close the loop of fashion. (Photo: Benny Ritzén) Published Aug 26, 2015The H&M Conscious Foundation launched the first-ever Global Change Award (GCA) at an exclusive event in the main library at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm the 25th of August.
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Hawking offers new solution to black hole mystery
Nobel physics laureate Gerard 't Hooft, of Utrecht University, the Netherlands, confers with Stephen Hawking after the Cambridge professor presented his solution to the information loss paradox. Hawking is in town for a weeklong conference on the information loss paradox, which is co-hosted by Nordita at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. (Photo: Håkan Lindgren) Published Aug 25, 2015Black holes don't actually swallow and destroy physical information, according to a theory proposed today by Stephen Hawking at the Hawking Radiation conference being held at KTH Royal Institute of Te...
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Hawking will explain new black hole idea today at KTH
KTH President Peter Gudmundson greets Stephen Hawking as he arrives at KTH yesterday. (Photo: Håkan Lindgren) Published Aug 25, 2015Last night Stephen Hawking dropped a hint that he'll reveal something big today. He'll be expanding on his latest ideas concerning black holes — and the possible passage of information into alternativ...
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Hawking conference takes aim at paradox of black hole theory
Among the laws of quantum mechanics is the idea that no information can ever be lost. So what happens to matter that falls into back holes? Stephen Hawking joins some of the world's leading physicists for a week of talks at KTH Royal Institute of Technology aimed at finding a solution to this mind-bending paradox of nature. (Photo: courtesy of Stephen Hawking) Published Aug 19, 2015By academia's standards, the list of participants packs as much star power as an Academy Awards ceremony. But the Hawking Radiation Conference, which begins Monday at KTH Royal Institute of Technology...
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Public lecture with Stephen Hawking
Published Jul 21, 2015Stockholm’s Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita) and UNC-Chapel Hill’s Laura Mersini-Houghton organizes a world-class science event with founding members of modern physics.
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Campus plans earn international sustainability award
The plan for a vibrant campus includes more student housing: up to 700 by 2017. (Illustration: White arkitekter AB)) Published Jun 26, 2015KTH has won the International Sustainable Campus Excellence Award for its campus plans. The plans outline the direction in which the campus will be developed over the next four to five years – the foc...
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Trees are source for high-capacity, soft batteries
Published Jun 01, 2015A method for making elastic high-capacity batteries from wood pulp was unveiled by researchers in Sweden and the US. Using nanocellulose broken down from tree fibres, a team from KTH Royal Institute o...
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KTH partakes in major investment in autonomous systems and software
Published May 28, 2015KTH Royal Institute of Technology is one of four universities that will share SEK 1.8 billion for basic research in autonomous systems and software development. The 10-year investment from the Knut an...
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Are we wired to be 'natural naysayers'?
Inside the basal ganglia (highlighted in pink), neurons compete for the brain's decisions. New research indicates this mechanism favors "no" as our default response. (Image: John Henkel derivative work: Leevanjackson [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons) Published May 27, 2015We may cave in to peer pressure, marketing and persuasion, but faced with decisions, the default response programmed into our brains is to say "no", a recent study suggests.
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Who left the dogs out?
Published May 20, 2015Their migration spanned half the globe and their culture was spread across the Pacific and Indian Oceans; but in Madagascar, the ancient Indonesians left behind a mystery. What happened to their d...
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Improved care for premature babies
Published May 19, 2015A new monitoring tool for preemies could help reduce complications from dangerous blood-oxygen levels by 30 to 50 percent, say its developers.
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Dressed for occupational health
Kaj Lindecrantz (right) and Jörgen Eklund see fabric-based sensors as a technical solution for sustaining high standards of occupational health and safety. (Photo: Håkan Lindgren) Published May 04, 2015In the workplace of the future, the risk of injury, stress and sick leave can be reduced. That is the hope of two KTH researchers who propose an interdisciplinary method to take the temperature of the...
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Innovation is focus of official Malaysian visit
Malaysia's innovation minister, Mah Siew Keong, came to KTH to learn how the university drives cooperation with industrial partners. (Photo: Camilla Cherry) Published Apr 30, 2015Mah Siew Keong, the Malaysian government official in charge of the Southeast Asian nation's innovation efforts, visited KTH Royal Institute of Technology last week to witness first-hand the collaborat...
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KTH performs well in QS ratings
Published Apr 29, 2015KTH continues to perform very well in the QS subject rankings. In the just-released QS World University Rankings by Subject 2015, KTH ranks among the world's 50 top universities in five out of 13 subj...
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KTH Great Prize to Max Tegmark
Published Apr 27, 2015Physicist and cosmologist Max Tegmark has been named the recipient of this year's Great Prize from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The Swedish scientist, who is a professor of physics at MIT, follo...
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Award-winning physicist prizes originality
Egor Babaev accepts the Göran Gustafsson Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. (Photo: Markus Marcetic, © Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien) Published Apr 17, 2015Egor Babaev, a physics researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, is one of five young researchers who will share SEK 24 million awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA). In awardi...
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Team solves mystery at heart of "black" auroras
Scientists at KTH and in the UK have opened up a whole new understanding of how dark recesses are formed inside Earth's aurora borealis. (Ehbrecht Photo) Published Apr 14, 2015While our understanding of how the aurora's shimmering curtains of colour are formed, scientists have struggled to explain the black patches between the bright beams. Now Swedish and British scientist...
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